

#13: I would to God it were not so, Excellency, but these people have great weight yet in the town. Techniques: Contrast, asyndeton, repetition.Characters: Danforth (Speaker), Giles, Parris.it may well be God damns a liar less than he that throws his life away for pride. Life, woman, life is God’s most precious gift no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it. #12: It is mistaken law that leads you to sacrifice. Techniques: Dramatic irony, alliteration, biblical allusion.Characters: Danforth (Speaker), Proctor.Proctor, a score of people have already testified they saw this woman with the Devil. #11: I am not empowered to trade your life for a lie….Mr. Techniques: Polysyndeton, simile, bestial connotations, alliteration.Characters: Cheever (Speaker), Abigail, Parris, Hale, Proctor.And he goes to save her, and, stuck two inches in the flesh of her belly, he draw a needle out. Like a struck beast, he says, and screamed a scream that a bull would weep to hear. #10: She sat to dinner in Reverend Parris’s house tonight, and without word nor warnin’ she falls to the floor.



#4: A fire, a fire is burning! I hear the boot of Lucifer, I see his filthy face! And it is my face, and yours, Danforth!…God damns our kind especially, and we will burn, we will burn together!
